This article analyses the trajectories of the Argentine exile in Sweden and Spain. These countries developed different policies toward exiles and refugees due to the unsimilarity of their political contexts. In the first case an efficient assistance system was developed. Nothing similar happened in the second case; furthermore, Spain did not join the Geneva Convention until August 1978, and the first law regulating the right of asylum was enacted as late as 1984. The above questions, as well as matters of cultural nearness/distance, were determinant in the integration process of Argentinians in those countries.

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